Ignored. Overlooked. But they're about to prove everyone wrong...Janet Pimm is used to being invisible. 70 something, with her beloved allotment for company, she simply doesn't need any...
In 1979, following a revolution against the dynastic regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, in power for more than thirty-seven years, Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeiny - charismatic leader of the revolu...
This study reveals without any doubt their high capabilities (referring to the Islamic State) their strategic plans to take control over the Arabic region and the whole Middle East, arriving at the...
A rich, magical novel from the Booker-shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World - now a top ten Sunday Times bestsellerIt is 1974 on the island of Cyprus. Two te...
Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book distils Japan's long, complex and fascinating history into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. These vivid and entertaining portraits take th...
Building on the crucial insight that jokes use many of the same mechanisms he had already discovered in dreams, Freud developed one of the richest and most comprehensive theories of humour that has...
A book on and Goodluck Jonathan / Sambo presidency in Nigeria. There are twelve chapters overall, interestingly in the title chapter and final chapter, Osai and Adesanya-Davies subject the Jonathan...
Reasons for writing this book entail many dimensions. The academic dimension of the researcher's interest revolves around the Albanian Diaspora in North America as an under-researched topic. Diaspo...
Revision with unchanged content. An understanding of the meaning of resilience assists us in making inferences as to why one individual reacts with psychological and physiological symptoms to an ob...
First published in 1979, The Joys of Motherhood is the story of Nnu Ego, a Nigerian woman struggling in a patriarchal society. Unable to conceive in her first marriage, Nnu is banished to Lagos whe...
Part of a beautiful collection of hardcover classics, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.The story of Mowgli, the man-cub who is brought up by wolves in the jungles of...
"A wonderful guide to happy living. It's based on hard evidence and written with a wonderful sense of fun" Richard Layard, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE and author of Happiness
Francesca Rossi is the beautiful daughter to a powerful Chicago mafia family. Her life has always been comfortable and safe. Now, betrothed to her childhood friend Angelo Bandini, she expects her f...
A missing plane resurfaces – and so do long-submerged secrets…An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a dr...
Philip Marlowe, the original hard-boiled private eye, returns to walk the mean streets of the American underworld again in these three classic novels. In The Lady in the Lake a business tycoon sets...
Introducing Little Clothbound Classics: irresistible, mini editions of short stories, novellas and essays from the world's greatest writers, designed by the award-winning Coralie Bickford-Smith.
John Ruskin overturned Victorian society's ideas about art and architecture, arguing that ancient buildings must be conserved for their deep, mystical links with the past and that creative design i...
Marvellously clear... playfully persuasive' Richard Dawkins'Full of Fascinating details. A delight to read.' Tim Harford'Highly original and convincing ... a delight to read!' - Daniel ...
'Dazzling... Pinker's big idea is that language is an instinct...as innate to us as flying is to geese... Words can hardly do justice to the superlative range and liveliness of Pinker's investigati...
The Ottoman Empire had been one of the major facts in European history since the Middle Ages. Stretching from the Adriatic to the Indian Ocean, the Empire was both a great political entity and a re...